The Osu Traditional Council has issued a strong warning to the Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA) and the promoters of the Bukom Banku – Ayitey Powers bout to reschedule the contest from the set date or face their wrath.<\/p>\n
According to the council, failure to adhere to their directive will amount to disrespect to the gods and the people of Osu which may require some violent measures to disrupt the fight.<\/p>\n
Speaking on\u00a0Eyewitness News<\/strong> on Thursday, Chief Priest of the Osu area, Nuumo Gbelenfo said the May 16 date for the fight falls within the period of the ban on drumming and noise making for the Ga area therefore,\u00a0\u201cthe fight cannot take place because we will be observing a solemn period, where all forms of noise making is prohibited.\u201d<\/p>\n He added that starting from May 9th, no activity would be allowed in the stadium and its environs in the pursuit of upholding Ga customs and traditions.<\/p>\n \u201cThe two boxers are both from the Ga state and should know better. The right thing should be done during this period. We urge them to follow advice or face the consequences,\u2019\u2019 he warned.<\/p>\n The bout, scheduled for the Accra Sports Stadium, had already been rescheduled \u00a0after Ayittey Powers pulled out \u2013\u2013 initially on the advice of his spiritual mentor, T.B Josuah, and later claimed he was unfit to fight.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Fred Djabanor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Osu Traditional Council has issued a strong warning to the Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA) and the promoters of the Bukom Banku – Ayitey Powers bout to reschedule the contest from the set date or face their wrath. According to the council, failure to adhere to their directive will amount to disrespect to the gods […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":15457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,3,38],"class_list":["post-15983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}